Freckles And Chimps

A New Day | May 14, 2010

Today I was thinking about my attitude and I realized that it hasn’t been that good recently, In fact I’ve been kinda ungrateful. It might not be visible to everyone but between me and God he knows and he keeps trying to grab my attention. Okay so I tend to refur to God as Daddy just to keep you on track that’s how I’ll be refuring to him for the rest of this post.

Okay so last week, There was this day built in perfection, I mean heaven sent this day to us as sign of Gods favor, It was gorgeous. Pure blue sky’s with white fluffy clouds, it was warm and there was a nice mild breeze. So this day that was built to perfection had me begging to be outside with some friends reading and having wonderful fun in the sun, but here’s the stinger. As soon as I got out there I recieved a phone call. It was Costa, one of the staff members here at Dibor, he was calling to ask a favor. Apparently there was somebody in need of a ride at the airport in syracuse and I needed to leave right away. My problem, I had no car. So I had to make about 10 phone calls to track one down and I was running out of time. This was quite stressfull in and of itself. Now these are not the only things that were stressing me out that day but I won’t recount the other things for the sake of the limited time I have to get this done tonight. Let’s just say it took me forever to find a vehicle and when I did get one I was already an hour late on my way to pick up a complete stranger.

As I’m driving in the car, frustrated an down because I couldn’t enjoy the beautiful day with my friends, Daddy started to convict me, he said “Look at the past year of Dibor, look at everything you’ve gained.” and so I listed things off. I said “Daddy I’ve gained discipline, I’ve gained adventure, I’ve been challenged beyond what I ever thought I could handle and come out on top and most of all I’ve gained an amazing Dibor family.” I thought wow Daddys been so good to me, what do I have to worry or complain about. Then it was time to apologize to Daddy and thank him for his blessing.

Two minutes later I get a call from Paster Christopher telling me he was much closer to the airport than me. I got to turn around and then go hang out with my friends. I was a pretty blessed and happy camper.

So I’m thinking Daddy uses adversity a lot of the time to confront and challenge us and to make us a little more thankful. He gives us so many things and we can get annoyed, frustrated and downright ungrateful at the drop of a dime. The truth is we all deserve death. Do me a favor, look at your life and locate your blessing from the perspective that you deserve death bit God has insead loved you. I’m guessing your gonna realize that you really don’t have much of a reason to have a bad attitude today. Thank your Daddy for his gifts and let his peace and Joy invade your life.

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